Method
In
order to make students fully aware of their acquired language
skills, Programma Italiano, as a rule, makes a continual and
careful monitoring of their linguistic attainments, during the
courses.
On
signing their enrolment document, students already know their
own personalised course's program, since it has been planned,
personalised and presented during those previous information
exchanges, which are part of our preliminary admission procedure.
Students, before enrolling in their personalised courses, have
to sit for the Entrance Test, that allows us to confirm what
we presented as the course's teaching objects. Our teachers
are qualified and skilful and our teaching method privileges
personalised individual courses, or courses for small groups
of students with an homogeneous basic knowledge of our language.
During the period which comes before their course's beginning,
students can make acquaintance with their teacher and our method,
by using "Italian Mail", a free service which works by means
of personalised exchange of communications by e-mail.
The
procedural method, that we are describing, is to be followed
for every applier. Our company has the intellectual right of
this method, which represents the result of the linguistic and
teaching careful activities of our Research Area. The procedural
method is the following:
1. From the Questionnaire to the course's planning: the first
reference is the "tutor".
After the student's request for a free proposal, we ask for
the compilation of our Questionnaire, consequently, we are able
to get to the course's definition by means of an exchange of
e-mails with the student , so that we can decide together the
course's kind, the level, the program, the lodgement, the thesis,
the complementary activities, the special activities, the social
relations and even the working activities. We enable our students
to live in the best, total way their stay in Italy, according
to their inclinations. From the first contacts by e-mail, our
students will receive the help of a tutor. The tutor will be
at their disposal during every moment of their course and stay
in our country. The tutor is helpful not only to carry on the
teaching program, but also to face all those problems of the
every-day-life, that sometimes cannot be easily worked out,
as students are far from home. We mean, for instance, the residence
permit, the difficulty to find the way to the hotel or to the
school, the relations with public organisations and administrative
offices.
2.
Entrance Test.
During the first day, students have to sit for the Entrance
Test, before their enrolment. Only when the Test has positive
results, according to our MVS (Subjective Valuation Method),
we can confirm the proposed teaching plan and complete the enrolment.
The Test wants to point out the students' present and real language
knowledge and skills, so that we can confirm or plan again the
aims, the terms and the teaching plan, with the agreement of
the students themselves.
3.
Didactics.
Each class, according to the results of the previous MVS valuation
of the student, is characterized by the careful application
of our teaching technique to every different function of the
language. Our method at first guides students through the study
of the linguistic theoretic rules, by means of direct practical
experiences; then, they will face an intensive application of
the attained theoretical and practical information, in order
to submit an acceptable thesis summarizing critically the material
they have covered and/or to carry on application activities
and social relations in every professional, cultural or sport
field.
4.
Verifications.
At the end of each classe, students' skills will be checked
to verify the concurrence of their real learning improvements
with the program's expectations. It is very important to share
with students the awareness of their effective improvements.
We want to create an atmosphere of transparency: by means of
the frequent tests and of the classes reports, our students
can assume the responsibility of their studies and see their
improvements and how they are attaining their objects.
5.
The thesis.
At the beginning of each course, tutors suggest to students
a topic and a practical goal to be attained by means of their
new linguistic knowledge, according to their personal and cultural
inclinations. Suggestions such as the realisation of an exhibition
where they can show their original culture, the show of their
pictures or photos, as well as interviews, thesis, literary
researches and journalistic activities: each of these activities
can represent an application field of what students learn during
our courses.
6.
Social relations, application and complementary activities.
In order to counterbalance our courses that are often for one
student or for small groups of three or five, we invite our
students to join several activities that take place particularly
in the evenings or during the week-ends, planned by our company
in order, not only to make our students meet and know each other,
but also to introduce them to the Programma Italiano Clubs,
where there are other Italian and foreign people, who love our
language and culture, and want to share occasions of meeting
and making acquaintance. Besides, to people who would like to
follow the programs of the athletic, sailing or trekking group,
we give the opportunity to put together the cultural, social
and sport aspects in a teaching plan made on purpose.
7.
Final valuation test.
At the end of each course, by means of the final MVS valuation
and of the MVO certification (Objective Valuation Method), our
students are able to check the achievement of the aims of their
course's program and to verify if it corresponds to their effective
language ability. Besides, if they are interested, they will
have the opportunity to apply for maintenance programs, to be
followed in their own countries, or for teaching programs of
more advanced level.
8.
Text - Books.
Programma Italiano adopts the following books:
"Programma
Italiano" - Infogestione - Infogestione
"Programma
Italiano - on line" - Infogestione - Infogestione
"Qui
Italia" - Mazzetti, Falcinelli, Servadio - Le Monnier
"Qui
Italia più" - Mazzetti, Manili, Bagianti - Le Monnier
"La
dimensione linguistica" - Sensini - Mondadori
"Grammatica
Italiana" - Serianni - Utet
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